The More Popular Sections in the Great Barrier Reef

The Inner Reef Gardens, as their name suggests are located close enough to the Queensland coastline and the day excursions make the shallow sheltered waters readily available to all class of diver from beginner to experienced. This area is an ideal and very popular scuba snorkelling dive training course location.

The Great Barrier Reef is not without its canyons and gorges and these can be found the Outer Reefs where large series of them both to be explored. Smaller reefs including Thetford Reef, Paradise Reef and Agincourt Reef, can also be searched and the splendour of the clownfish with its large colonies make this spot an extremely colourful are to see and experience.

The Far Northern Reefs include the famous Ribbon Reef system which stretch across over 100 miles of 10 coral reefs, all to the north of Cairns. While at the top end of this remarkable section is the famous Cod Hole where it is not uncommon to be welcomed by a large family of Potato Cod.  Their friendly antics and sheer size will provide plenty of fun and memories when you dive the Cod Hole. Because of its remoteness, the Far North Reefs will require s three day outing on one of the liveaboard operations that depart from Cairns.

The scubapro diving gear attached to their experienced divers will normally head out to the dive sites of the Coral Seas located just under 200 miles from shore, and if you are looking for one of Australia’s best dive sites, this is the spot to head for. Throughout the year, large numbers of liveaboards travel from Cairns to engage these beautiful waters, with prolific marine life found at dives sites such as Osprey Reef and Bougainville Reef.

Its not a legend but a reality that the Great Barrier Reef with its 900 islands and over 3000 individual reefs offers so much for all types of scuba snorkelling dive enthusiasts establishing it as one of the best scuba dive vacation destinations to put at the top of your list. All that's left it to put down the well read scuba diving mag, buy your scuba diving package from a store maybe online scuba store, and book your scuba dive vacation package to amaze your self in this underwater kingdom. You won't find another underwater living organism like it, diverse with marine and coral life. And we can be grateful that it is being preserved by conservationist for all our generations of scuba divers.